Message: Unit of info passed between two endpoints. Has header and payload.

Channel: Decouples producer from consumer.

Point-to-Point

Publish-Subscribe

1.2. Spring Integration’s support for enterprise integration patternsEnterprise Integration Patterns describes the patterns used in the exchange of messages, as well as the patterns that provide the glue between applications. Like the diagram in figure 1.1, it’s about messaging and integration in the broadest sense, and the patterns apply to both intra-application and inter application scenarios. Spring Integration supports the patterns described in the book, so we need to establish a broad understanding of the definitions of these patterns and the relations between them. From the most general perspective, only three base patterns make up enterprise integration patterns: Message, Message Channel, and Message Endpoint. Figure 1.2 shows how these components interact with e…

Is determination, brilliance, great timing and above all great product is the mantra for fame and fortune?

Often a promising start leads to failure.
Most startups fail
Most new products are not successful
Most new ventures do not live up to their potential

Argues - assumption if we build it, they will come. When we fail, we have a ready made excuse:
1. We didn't have the right stuff
2. We weren't visionary enough
3. Weren't in the right place at the right time.

Author rejects the above line of thinking and argues its the boring stuff what matters the most.
** Entrepreneurship is a kind of management. i.e. its dull, serious and bland.

IMVU model AKA Lean Startup model
Instead of spending years perfecting the product. Build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs and crash-your-computer yes really stabilty problems. Then ship it to customers way before its ready. And lastly ship/cha…

Nothing is more fulfilling than knowledge.
Nothing is more profitable than tolerance
Nothing is more valuable than din.
No friend is more beautiful than intelligence
No companion is more evil than ignorance
Nothing is more esteemed than piety
Nothing is more satisfying than leaving base desires
No deed is better than pondering
No good is higher than patience
No evil is worse than pride
No messenger is more just than truth
No guide is better advisor than honesty
No poverty is more low than greed
No wealth is more ill fortuned than hoarding
No life is superior than good health
No lifestyle is more enjoyable than chastity
No worship is higher than humility
No asceticism is preferable to contentment
No guard is more protecting than silence
No absent thing is closer than death.